Hair

We’ve been working on building up our inventory for the past several weeks and we’re finally ready to share our Black Friday discounts with you. We’re sharing these early for two reasons: 1. To give you ample chance to take advantage of them between now and November 30. 2. To ease some of the backlog that comes with the flood...... Read More...

For years customers have asked us whether we had a program in place for returning BGLH Marketplace containers. For those who incorporate our butters into their beauty routine, the empties definitely pile up over time and many of you correctly noted this isn’t great for the environment. We finally have a program in place to receive your used containers! If you...... Read More...

We have nothing against DIY (do-it-yourself.) As a matter of fact, we sell raw shea, cocoa and mango butter for those who want to do whipping at home. But we can say with confidence that when it comes to quality whipped butter, buying from us is better than doing it at home. Here’s why: 1. Avoid the mess Whipping shea,...... Read More...

We’re always talking about the many uses of our butters. They can be used to style and strengthen hair (check out these customer testimonials here), to ease eczema, psoriasis and dry skin (check out these customer testimonials here), and as a hand cream to grow nails and keep cuticles from splitting (read more about that here), but what about the...... Read More...

I work all day whipping shea, cocoa and mango butter plus I’m mom to 3 young kids. My days are spent packaging products, giving baths, cooking, and generally running around. As you can imagine, I live a pretty nail-decimating life. I stopped getting my nails done regularly when my oldest son was around 2 (so four years ago!) and decided...... Read More...

Fall has been exciting so far for BGLH Marketplace! A couple weeks ago we were contacted by YouTube to provide 420 whipped butters for a homecoming event they are having at Howard University! This is the biggest order we’ve received to date and we were working on a 5-day deadline, plus we had to keep filling online and storefront order....... Read More...

We thought it would be nice to give you a glimpse of the women behind the scenes of BGLH Marketplace, so over the next few days we will be introducing you to our team members. We’ll start with Lisa. Lisa has been on the BGLH Marketplace team since 2016. Her primary duties are molding black soap bars and overseeing the...... Read More...

I call shea butter the ‘baking soda of the beauty world’ because it has so many different uses. Just like baking soda can be used for everything from cleaning to cooking to laundry, shea butter can be used for everything from blemish reduction to hair softening to itch relief. The American Shea Butter Institute compiled a list of 21 ways...... Read More...

A new study by non-profit organization Silent Spring Institute is highlighting — again — the crisis of endocrine disruption. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with hormone systems and can cause tumors, birth defects, infertility and developmental disorders. A recent, expansive report by GQ found — very scarily — that endocrine disruption over the past several decades has led to...... Read More...

Earlier this month I did a video about our goal of increasing our inventory and speeding up our processing times after our record-breaking July 4 sale. Well, at this point the July 4 sale pales in comparison to August. The BOGO sale (buy one get one free) we did in August tripled the July 4 sales numbers. And this is...... Read More...